So your base city got connected to the grid and you are now able to influence the power prcing pricing directly. Understadning Understanding the power pricing will allow you to get most profit of your powerplant assets.
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Only power that can be instantly consumed is produced
Most important pricniple principle is that plants do not run, unless the power they produce can be used rightwayright away. Power produced does not go into a “warehouse”.
Many power plants have the “dynamic output” capability, meaingmeaning, they can throtle throttle their output and produce less power if it is not needed.
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This is done very simply, each power producer specifies their “offer price”. This is the price they are willing to sell power at. It usually reflects, but do not have to, their cost of producing the power. For example, a coal plant, after paing payng wages and buying coal, can produce power at $50 per MWh. So setting offer price at $50 might a be a good start.
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At tick computation time, the city consumption is determined based on poplaution population size and weather. Afterwards, the power plants are activated based on their offer price. The plants with cheaper offer price are used first.
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In real life and in Sim Energy Empire, you will see the spot price being high in cities, with one or very few poeer power producer, and with plants barely keeping up to the demand.
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If the power plant has dynamic output capability, it makes sense to split the output to different price offer levels. Offering half of the plant’s output at lower price increases probability the plant will run at least partialypartially. Offering part of the plant’s output at high price increases probability of high spot price.
You also want to take into account fual fuel availability. For example, if water is scarsescarce, you probably do not want your hydro to use it all up while selling power for $30. Similarly, if you have difficulty sourcing your coal, gas and your reserves are low, you probably want to wait until power is expensive, before you run your plants.
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This strategy offers your plant’s ouput output for high price, meaingmeaning, it will only run if the power it produces can be sold for high price. Ideal, if you inputs are running low.
You basically want to reserve your scarse scarce input for the moment when it can be turned into expensive energy and not use it up otherwise.
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